A Comparative Survey on the Mental Health of First Grade Students of High Schools (Second Course) in Malayer City

Abstract

The present research was conducted aiming at comparing the mental health of girl and boy students in the first grade of high schools (second course) in Malayer city.This research was of descriptive and surveying type. The population under study included all students who were studying in Malayer high schools in the school year 2014-15. In this research, all girl and boy students of Malayer city who included 2717 students were selected as samples by using census method. Measurement instrument of research data was questionnaire scl.90.R. Content validity and Cronbach’s alpha were used to verify the questionnaire validity and reliability, respectively. Independent T test was used for data analysis to compare the two groups of girls and boys in mental health subscales. The findings showed that there is a significant difference between girls and boys in all mental health subscales except for anger and psychosis. Moreover, in all mental health subscales, girls’ scores were significantly higher than those of the boys (P<0.05). Considering the higher level of symptoms in girl students, this group of teens needs to be more addressed and it is required that the factors relevant to their mental health are dealt with in future studies.